David Kirby Quotes

#1. That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

David Kirby

#2. He wore a candy-cane scarf and a red pom-pom hat. Every time the wind started up, his pom bounced on the air like a bobber.

Emily Fridlund

#3. People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

Sri Chinmoy

#5. Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.

David Kirby

#6. Her voice was perfect, custom-made for my ears. I wanted to hit the record button in my brain and save this all for later. Half of me was listening to her words, but the other half was mesmerized by the melody.

Kathy Hatfield

#7. What we should enjoy, perhaps, is not their performance, but the mere fact of their existence. That, we believe, is wonder enough.

David Kirby

#8. The universe is a hollow sphere floating in the middle of a sea of fire. There are numerous tiny holes in the surface of the sphere, as well as a large one. The light from the sea of flames shines through these holes. The tiny ones are stars, and the large one is the sun.

Liu Cixin

#9. To be sure, the provision of liquidity alone can by no means solve the problems of credit risk and credit losses; but it can reduce liquidity premiums, help restore the confidence of investors, and thus promote stability.

Ben Bernanke

#10. I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#11. out pulled the chair

Dannika Dark

#12. People like Superman, The Flash - they just feel limited in who they are and what you can do with them because everyone knows who they are and what they do. Someone like Animal Man feels very open to interpretation.

Jeff Lemire

#13. To be acceptable, it seems, a project must often be billed as a pure replica of a successful venture in an advanced country.

Albert O. Hirschman

#14. While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.

Isaac Asimov

#15. I can help, but in the end it is up to you

David Kirby

#16. For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

Ryan Adams

#17. What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Byron Katie

#18. In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

Semezdin Mehmedinovic

#19. One faction views SeaWorld as a Garden Hilton for killer whales, and the other views it as a Hanoi Hilton for killer whales.

David Kirby